Where is Visual Studio storing Publish Profiles?

Question

I have a corrupted Publish profile.

I need to delete it. My other computer is fine, so I know it is local.

I have tried:

1. Clean checkout of codebase from Git (so nothing is local in my code directories).

2. Deleting C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Local/VisualStudio

3. Deleting C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/VisualStudio
4. Full text search of Profile Name 'MunicipalAgenda' through Registry
5. Full Text search through machine.
6. Creation of a new Windows User for Visual Studio Development.

Despite all of this, VS.NET is hanging onto that corrupted Publish profile.

Honestly I am at wits' end, and my next drastic step is to do a fresh reinstall of Windows 10. Please help before it comes to that!!!

Answer 1

Normally any publish profile store in particular project.

For that you have to look at following location.

1. Go to that project.
2. Project has special folder call Properties
3. Inside that there is a folder called PublishProfiles ( Something similar)

Answer 2

I also had some difficulty in getting my profile deletions to stick ... Visual Studio (2017) doesn't seem to be able to do it from Solution Explorer.

My latest attempt is to go to Source Control Explorer, open up the /Properties/PublishProfiles folder, and delete and commit the unwanted profiles from there. So far so good :)